Living A Non-Volitional Life

It is absolutely no problem in living a completely non- volitional life….one can live, live and live. We foolishly assume that the world and its affairs are conducted by our will, our desire and by our ambition. But it is not so. Everything appears to go on and that ‘I’ being a cell in the body of God, has to participate and there is no point in saying that we must know what God’s will is? Someone has put a message on his table top written: “Lord, tell me what your will is so that I may do it.” But why must He come and tell you? He can do it without our help and can run His affairs on His own. We must have this sense of'atone-ment' with the Divine Will. What is that stands between God and me? It is me. Once this ‘me’ is removed and when the whole being sees this ,then, there is always doing what has to be done with our non- volitional activity, dynamic action, ceaseless action and appropriate action without being caught in the distinction of good or bad action.

It is That Reality in which all the elements, all the animate and inanimate beings shine as if they have an independent existence and in which they exist for a time and into which they merge ultimately.

It is that consciousness which is the source of the apparently threefold divisions of knower, knowledge and known and that bliss Absolute which is the life of all beings. This world appearance is a confusion even as the blueness of the sky is an optical illusion. We often come across the expression of 'Kakataliya Nyaya' in the scriptures- which means to demonstrate that a crow alights on the cocoanut palm tree and that very instant a ripe coconaut falls. The two unrelated events thus seem to be related in time and space but there is no causal relationship as such. Though the creation in general and our life in particular is somewhat akin to such instance, but then our mind is caught up in its own trap of its logic and questions' why' and endeavors' why' and' wherefore' of this creation without getting a satisfactory answer to it. It is therefore pertinent for us to observe our mind, its motion, its ideas ,its reasoning and moreover the realization of the indivisible unity of the object observed and the process of observation as the infinite consciousness only.